Receipt of chemotherapy was ascertained based on the presence of one or more claims for a chemotherapy drug or administration, which were identified using HCPCS and ICD-9-CM codes in the healthcare claims database.
With the exception of language knowledge, which was self-reported, the remaining information was ascertained based on legal documentation provided by the immigrants during their application processes.
10 11 Participants reported their occupation, enabling occupational class to be ascertained based on the registrar general's classification of occupations.
The date of first diagnosis of DR or DMP also was ascertained based on all information available, including that provided by the PCPs in their responses to questionnaires and copies of ophthalmology records provided.
For example, only one hybrid (field identification number 1065) from site JR could be ascertained based on morphological criteria during field sampling and our genetic analysis recognized it to be an F2.
In addition, the 13C signature measurements allow us to detect injected CO2 in plot regions where its presence could not be unequivocally ascertained based on concentration measurement alone.
This presupposes that the stability of the well system can be ascertained based on advance knowledge of the wellbore/rock behaviour derived from established rock mechanical and failure models.
For example, in most vaccine field trials, cases are ascertained based on clinical symptoms, then the specific infectious agent is confirmed by a laboratory test, so efficacy against clinical disease is determined.
While distant, sequence-based relatives of caspase-like proteins (e.g., meta- and paracaspases) have been recognized in silico in various unicellular organisms, however, bacterial orthologs have yet to be ascertained based on DNA sequence (Vercammen et al. 2007).
Zinc oxide has been ascertained based on the UV Vis-NIR reflectance profile in Fig. 1b, exhibiting an inflection point at 384 nm [13] and on the lUV Vis-NIRe spectreflectancet reprofileherein) showing the sharp band at around 380 nm ascribable to ZnO band gap emission [14] and a broad band at higher wavelengths.
